A collective unconscious reconsidered
Jung's archetypal imagination in the light of contemporary psychology and social science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5766868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry T Hunt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-98 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2011.01952.x |
| PMID | 22288542 |
| OpenAlex | W1905863550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 43 |
A needed rapprochement between Jung and the contemporary human sciences may rest less on the much debated relevance of a biologistic collective unconscious than on a re-inscribing of an archetypal imagination, as the phenomenological and empirical core of Jungian psychology. The most promising approaches in this regard in terms of theory and research in psychology come from combining the cognitive psychology of metaphor and synaesthesia, individual differences in imaginative absorption and openness to numinous experience and spirituality as a form of symbolic intelligence. On the socio-cultural side, this cognitive psychology of archetypal imagination is also congruent with Lévi-Strauss on the metaphoric roots of mythological thinking, and Durkheim on a sociology of collective consciousness. This conjoined perspective, while validating the cross cultural commonality of physical metaphor intuited by Jung and Hillman on alchemy, also shows Jung's Red Book , considered as the expressive source for his more formal psychology, to be far closer in spirit to a socio-cultural collective consciousness, based on metaphoric imagination, than to a phylogenetic or evolutionary unconscious. A mutual re-inscribing of Jung into congruent areas of contemporary psychology, anthropology, sociology, and vice versa, can help to further validate Jung's key observations and is fully consistent with Jung's own early efforts at synthesis within the human sciences
Analytical psychology · Personal unconscious · Psychology of religion · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Social Representations and Identity
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The projected image of idyllic life and its construction
Terrorists as Monsters
The numinous experience in the context of psychopathology and traumatic stress studies
Intimations of a Spiritual New Age. IV. Carl Jung’s Archetypal Imagination as Futural Planetary Shamanism
Synesthesia and the Perception of Unseen Realities
Re-visioning psychology
Toward a psychology of being.
Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology
Radical Ecopsychology
Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility.
The Multiplicity of Dreams
Radical Hope
Sources of Structure
Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition, and the Psychology of Ultimate Concern
A Case Against Spiritual Intelligence
Spirituality and Intelligence
Is teaching Jung within university possible
Jung in the academy
Growth Enhancing Versus Dissociative States of Consciousness
Response to Hester McFarland Solomon, George B. Hogenson and Anthony Stevens
Revisiting Jung's concept of innate sensitiveness
Archetypes as symbolic forms
The Baldwin effect
Jung in the academy
Approaching archetypes
The developmental/emergent model of archetype, its implications and its application to shamanism
A reappraisal of classical archetype theory and its implications for theory and practice
From archetypes to reflective function
The principles of psychology
Durkheim's ‘Individualism and the Intellectuals
Absorption
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Primitive Classification (Routledge Revivals)
Semantic Differential Technique in the Comparative Study of Cultures1
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |